Line

LINE develops calling and messaging applications for mobile phones in Japan and internationally. It offers LINE, a smartphone application that allows users to make free calls and messaging with other users regardless of which mobile network provider they are using.The company also offers NAVER, a search communication service; NAVER Matome, a user-participatory curation platform; Livedoor, a portal site; livedoor Blog, a blogging service; and livedoor News that provides information gathered from various news sources, as well as a range of advertising products. In addition, it operates LINE GAME, a platform that lets LINE users to play games.

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gumi

Corporate Round in 2014
gumi, Inc, is a mobile entertainment content publisher and developer based in Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 2007 by CEO Hironao Kunimitsu, gumi Inc. has expanded from one office in Tokyo to multiple subsidiaries across Asia, Europe and North America. Although we have had a lot of success in Japan with both feature phone and smartphone games, our flagship smartphone title Brave Frontier was a massive hit across the globe. On top of the great stuff we do internally, we also have partnerships with world famous companies like SEGA and LINE, and plan to bring users around the world more high quality entertainment apps.

GeoLogic, Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Geologic is an Analyze large amounts of data such as location and ad distribution, and provide marketing support for companies.

Ecomobi PTE

Private Placement in 2019
Ecomobi Corporation Pte. Ltd. operates as a social selling platform by cross-border channels for various marketplaces over Southeast Asia. The company provides solutions that help clients to boost up sales, leads, and users by network. It serves e-commerce, finance, banking, and insurance clients. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Singapore. It has additional offices in Indonesia, Vietnam, and Thailand.

iPrice Group

Private Placement in 2018
iPrice Group Sdn Bhd operates an e-commerce platform. The company offers electronics, clothing, shoes, bags, watches, jeweler, kids and toys, sports and outdoors, and home and living products. The company also provides products in various categories, such as kitchen and dining, cooling, women’s ethnic wear, skin care, men’s sneakers, strollers and carriers, makeup, backpacks, women’s dresses, accessories, food supplements, hair care, smartphones, LED, cases and covers, men’s shoes, gadgets, women’s heels, sport, fashion watches, travel, headphones, bedroom, casual, beauty and health, medical equipment, and cycling products. It serves clients in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Vietnam. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Scalar

Private Placement in 2020
Scalar, Inc. researches and develops distributed ledger technology based database software solutions. The company develops Scalar DLT that includes Scalar DB, a distributed database software, and Scalar DL, a distributed ledger software. It supports business operators to rebuild their businesses by utilizing distributed register technology with scalability and tamper resistance. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

IDN Media

Private Placement in 2019
IDN Media is the leading multi-platform media company for Millennials and Gen Z in Indonesia. Our vision to bring positive impacts to society. We want to democratize access to accurate, balanced, useful, and positive information and ultimately, to become the voice of Millennials and Gen Z in Indonesia. IDN Media operates IDN Times, Popbela.com, Popmama.com, Yummy, IDN Creative, IDN Event, and IDN Creator Network.

Balance Hero Co., Ltd.

Private Placement in 2018
Balance Hero Co., Ltd. develops mobile applications for providing remaining balance to prepaid mobile customers. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in South Korea.

Funding Societies

Private Placement in 2018
Funding Societies is an online platform that connects investors with small businesses that need funds, solving the financial inclusion issue by making credit-worthy SMEs bankable. They operate in South East Asia and have won a lot of accolades, including the Global Excellence Award from ITU Telecom, a specialized agency of the United Nations for ICT. They are the first P2P platform that got operating licenses from the regulators in Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia. In 5 years, it has helped finance over 3.3 million business loans with over S$1.8 billion in funding.

KKday

Private Placement in 2018
KKday is an e-commerce travel platform that offers 10,000+ experiences around the world. It provides a wide breadth of experiences, including theme park tickets, cooking classes, multi-day tours, airport transfers, sim cards, and hidden sights off the beaten path. KKday was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in T'ai-pei, Taiwan.

justInCase

Series A in 2019
justInCase, Inc. provides smartphone repair cost, accident, and credit card insurance services. The company also offers a mobile application which enables users to buy insurance coverage from insurance providers, for repair cost insurance; upload photos and details of a smart-phone or wearable device; and use artificial intelligence (AI) to determine the premium. Additionally, it allows users to pool to pay insurance premiums. justInCase, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Pocket Concierge

Corporate Round in 2015
Pocket Menu Inc. owns and operates an online portal that offers restaurant reservation and payment services. The company covers restaurants in Tokyo, Yokohama, Kyoto, and Osaka. Pocket Menu Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. As of January 11, 2019, Pocket Menu Inc. operates as a subsidiary of American Express International, Inc.

PT. Warung Pintar Sekali

Private Placement in 2018
PT. Warung Pintar Sekali develops prefabricated smart kiosks for street vendors. It offers smart kiosk that are fitted with digital point of sale equipment, surveillance camera, digital system, charging station, television, stove and dispenser, and refrigerator. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Perx Technologies

Series B in 2019
Perx Technologies is a category creating Lifestyle Marketing SaaS Platform helping traditional enterprises transform from transient, transactional businesses to delivering meaningful engagements and experiences in the digital economy. Enterprises are racing to build mobile-first net new revenue streams by becoming 2 sided marketplaces. Perx Lifestyle Marketing Platform enables enterprises to redefine customer engagement, stand up a commerce marketplace in less than 30 days, and become a strong Adtech contender in the digital economy.

Line Pay

Private Placement in 2019
LINE Pay Corporation designs and develops a mobile money transfer and purchasing. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Japan. The company operates as a subsidiary of LINE Corporation.

Wonderplanet

Corporate Round in 2016
Wonderplanet Inc. designs and develops native language applications and games for smart phones and tablets. It provides 2D and 3D games for iOS and android. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Nagoya, Japan.

True Balance

Series B in 2018
True Balance is a digital wallet owned and operated by Balancehero India Private Limited (BHI), that enables users to access utility bill payment, loan recharge, insurance, and other financial products. With 70 million users, True Balance aims to serve India with utility payments financial platform for the unbanked users to serve their money for living requirements. It was launched in 2014 by Mr. Charlie Lee as CEO, an alumnus of the University of Chicago.

IDN Media

Series C in 2019
IDN Media is the leading multi-platform media company for Millennials and Gen Z in Indonesia. Our vision to bring positive impacts to society. We want to democratize access to accurate, balanced, useful, and positive information and ultimately, to become the voice of Millennials and Gen Z in Indonesia. IDN Media operates IDN Times, Popbela.com, Popmama.com, Yummy, IDN Creative, IDN Event, and IDN Creator Network.

Bespo

Seed Round in 2018
Bespo is a mobile restaurant reservation application that enables users to book tables via LINE's messaging service. The company was established in 2018 to solve the problems of Japanese restaurants using the latest technology.

GROOVE X

Series A in 2017
GROOVE X, Inc. designs and develops household robot having artificial intelligence and social robotics to provide companionship. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Gatebox Inc.

Merger/Acquisition in 2017
Gatebox Inc. plans and develops Internet of Things IoT related products. It manufactures Gatebox, a device that uses small scale projection technology and sensors to create virtual characters such as Azuma Hikari. The characters use projection and sensing technology to talk and connect to various forms of information technology products, such as electronics, Internet, and smart phones. The company was formerly known as Vinclu Inc. and changed its name to Gatebox Inc. in July 2017. Gatebox Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. As of April 30, 2017, Gatebox Inc. operates as a subsidiary of LINE Corporation.

Line Games

Private Placement in 2018
Line Games is a Line Corporation subsidiary that is focused on game business. It was formed in 2017 following Line's acquisition of NextFloor, a Korea-based game publisher which has produced titles like Dragon Flight and Destiny Child.

Bear Robotics

Private Placement in 2019
Bear Robotics addresses the increased pressure faced by the restaurant industry around wages, labor supply, and cost efficiencies. It aims to revolutionize the restaurant and food service industry using robotics and AI. The company makes robots that help customers receive an improved dining experience, employees with greater job satisfaction, and owners of restaurants with an increase in profits. Bear Robotics started in 2017 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Appier

Series C in 2017
Appier Inc., a technology company that provides artificial intelligence (AI) platforms to help enterprises. Its products include Aideal, which helps businesses to trigger purchase decisions and shortens sales cycles; AIQUA, a proactive customer engagement platform that enables users to engage audience based on their behavior inside and outside application or web environment; AIXON, a data science platform that unifies and enriches existing customer data to help understand audience and run AI models easily to predict future actions; and CrossX advertising, an AI powered advertising solutions that brings optimal campaign performance at scale. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Taipei, Taiwan. It has additional offices in Taipei, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, Osaka, Sydney, Ho Chi Minh City, Manila, Hong Kong, Mumbai, New Delhi, Jakarta, Seoul, and Bangkok.

Mobike

Private Equity Round in 2017
Meituan Bike (formerly Mobike) is a Chinese fully station-less bicycle-sharing system. It develops mobile apps for users to find and use bicycles to travel anywhere. Davis Wang Xiao Feng, Hu Wei Wei, and Xia Yi Ping founded Mobike on January 27, 2015, with its headquarters in Beijing, China. Mobike raised $600 million in Series E funding led by Tencent, bringing the firm's fundraising in 2017 alone to nearly US$1 billion in June 2017. It became worth US$3 billion in the same month. Chinese web company Meituan-Dianping acquired Mobike for US$2.7 billion in April 2018. Parent company Meituan-Dianping announced name change from Mobike to Meituan Bike on January 23, 2019 as part of an ongoing integration.

iPrice Group

Series B in 2020
iPrice Group Sdn Bhd operates an e-commerce platform. The company offers electronics, clothing, shoes, bags, watches, jeweler, kids and toys, sports and outdoors, and home and living products. The company also provides products in various categories, such as kitchen and dining, cooling, women’s ethnic wear, skin care, men’s sneakers, strollers and carriers, makeup, backpacks, women’s dresses, accessories, food supplements, hair care, smartphones, LED, cases and covers, men’s shoes, gadgets, women’s heels, sport, fashion watches, travel, headphones, bedroom, casual, beauty and health, medical equipment, and cycling products. It serves clients in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Vietnam. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

AnyMind Group

Private Placement in 2018
AnyMind Group is an organization that is transforming industries through artificial intelligence. Headquartered in Singapore, AnyMind Group is the parent company of AdAsia Holdings, TalentMind and CastingAsia. In the marketing industry, end-to-end solutions by companies under the AnyMind Group span influencer marketing, programmatic and digital advertising, and publisher monetization. For the human resource industry, AnyMind group’s TalentMind provides human resource and recruitment professionals with an AI-driven recruitment optimization platform to make hiring more efficient and smart. AnyMind Group aims to power businesses and professionals with a suite of AI-based solutions, enabling them to easily achieve greater scale and efficiency within and across departments.

Loyyal

Venture Round in 2019
Loyyal Corporation provides a loyalty and rewards platform built with blockchain and smart contract technology. The company offers enterprise-grade hosting services, development tools, and other support services. Loyyal Corporation was formerly known as Ribbit.me! USA Inc. and changed its name to Loyyal Corporation in April 2016. Loyyal Corporation was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

justInCase

Private Placement in 2018
justInCase, Inc. provides smartphone repair cost, accident, and credit card insurance services. The company also offers a mobile application which enables users to buy insurance coverage from insurance providers, for repair cost insurance; upload photos and details of a smart-phone or wearable device; and use artificial intelligence (AI) to determine the premium. Additionally, it allows users to pool to pay insurance premiums. justInCase, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Perx Technologies

Private Placement in 2019
Perx Technologies is a category creating Lifestyle Marketing SaaS Platform helping traditional enterprises transform from transient, transactional businesses to delivering meaningful engagements and experiences in the digital economy. Enterprises are racing to build mobile-first net new revenue streams by becoming 2 sided marketplaces. Perx Lifestyle Marketing Platform enables enterprises to redefine customer engagement, stand up a commerce marketplace in less than 30 days, and become a strong Adtech contender in the digital economy.

Scalar

Series A in 2020
Scalar, Inc. researches and develops distributed ledger technology based database software solutions. The company develops Scalar DLT that includes Scalar DB, a distributed database software, and Scalar DL, a distributed ledger software. It supports business operators to rebuild their businesses by utilizing distributed register technology with scalability and tamper resistance. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

PT. Amartha Mikro Fintek

Private Placement in 2019
PT. Amartha Mikro Fintek operates a peer-to-peer (P2P) lending marketplace for small and medium enterprises. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in South Jakarta, Indonesia.

CoHive

Series A in 2018
PT Evi Asia Tenggara owns and operates a co-working chain that provides individuals and companies with access to workspaces. It also organizes a series of weekly knowledge-sharing sessions, such as BizTalks and TechTalks; and provides programs, such as coding classes and UI/UX classes in partnership with relevant institutions to cater to the demand for practical skills. The company also owns and operates co-living spaces. It has co-working spaces in various cities in Indonesia, such as South Jakarta, Central Jakarta, Tangerang, West Jakarta, Bali, North Jakarta, Medan, and Yogyakarta. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Jakarta Selatan, Indonesia.

Freee

Private Placement in 2018
freee is automated online accounting software that syncs with your bank accounts and automatically categorise entries to create financial reports. freee was launched on Mar 19, 2013 and is offered to SMBs operating under the Japanese taxation system. It takes freemium model and its paid plan begins at 980 JPY (~10 USD) per month per business. The company, formerly named as “CFO K.K.”, was founded in July 2012 led by Daisuke Sasaki, who previously headed up Google’s SMB marketing in Asia Pasific region. freee is the winner of Invinity Ventures Summit Launch Pad 2013 Spring, the most prestegious demo event in Japan.

Mobilus

Private Placement in 2018
Mobilus Corporationis a Communication Tech Company that transforms communication with AI. We provide communication platforms that have been adopted by major carriers and SIer companies, and develop communication solutions that utilize mobile and artificial intelligence.

Funding Societies

Series B in 2018
Funding Societies is an online platform that connects investors with small businesses that need funds, solving the financial inclusion issue by making credit-worthy SMEs bankable. They operate in South East Asia and have won a lot of accolades, including the Global Excellence Award from ITU Telecom, a specialized agency of the United Nations for ICT. They are the first P2P platform that got operating licenses from the regulators in Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia. In 5 years, it has helped finance over 3.3 million business loans with over S$1.8 billion in funding.

Catalog

Seed Round in 2018
CATALOG is a developer of a data conversion and storage platform used to offer the next generation of digital data archives and computation. Its platform facilitates the encoding of data and information into DNA format and makes it economically attractive to use DNA as the major medium for long-term archival of data that enables customers to store digital information in DNA molecules. It brings cutting-edge synthetic biology technologies to the world of information storage and computation. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Evolany

Private Placement in 2018
Evolany Co., Ltd. develops software application for business automation. It develops Chatbot for customer relationship management. Evolany Co., Ltd. caters to automobile, education, fashion mail order, government, food and beverage, shopping mall, medical institutions, and hospitality sectors. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Yokohama, Japan.

One Media

Venture Round in 2019
ONE MEDIA's unique visual storytelling, the message you want to convey is turned into video content.Every day video distribution, viewing data analysis, creative planning and production are all done in-house to deliver video content with unique value.

Warung Pintar

Seed Round in 2018
Warung Pintar is a micro retail technology company with a mission to enable digitalization for the grassroots population to improve the community around them. With data processing and analysis, Warung Pintar enables data point for the underserved bottom of the pyramid which forms the bulk of the population in Indonesia, opening new windows of opportunity for financial inclusion, social security, behavior analysis, community engagement and impact monitoring.

ZUZU Hospitality

Series A in 2018
ZUZU Hospitality is chain for independent hotels, delivering revenue growth through distribution and revenue management. As such, we are the indisputable primary partner to hoteliers in driving revenue. Acting as their hotel operating system, we power their back office revenue generation business operations, allowing them to focus on being great hoteliers.

Sunday

Series A in 2020
Sunday Ins Co., Ltd. provides insurance products and services through internet . The company offers health insurance to businesses and individuals, motor insurance, travel insurance, and electronics protection. Sunday Ins Co., Ltd. develops an app that helps businesses and individuals to check claim data, health data, plan welfare and budget for employees, manage employee information and their benefit packages, and submit claim. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Bangkok, Thailand.

KKday

Series B in 2018
KKday is an e-commerce travel platform that offers 10,000+ experiences around the world. It provides a wide breadth of experiences, including theme park tickets, cooking classes, multi-day tours, airport transfers, sim cards, and hidden sights off the beaten path. KKday was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in T'ai-pei, Taiwan.

Kiwiple, Inc.

Merger/Acquisition in 2017
Kiwiple, Inc. provides location based information and social networking services. The company is based in South Korea. As of June 30, 2017, Kiwiple, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of LINE Corporation.

3 Minute

Venture Round in 2015
3MINUTE inc. Is the world "s best YouTuber management production specializing in girls. We provide attractive contents to the world via YouTube whithin 3minutes.

Snaq me

Venture Round in 2019
Snaq.me Co., Ltd. offers snack subscription and delivery services. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Photosynth

Private Placement in 2020
Photosynth Inc. develops smart locks for homes. The company was founded on September 1, 2014 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

CoHive

Private Placement in 2018
PT Evi Asia Tenggara owns and operates a co-working chain that provides individuals and companies with access to workspaces. It also organizes a series of weekly knowledge-sharing sessions, such as BizTalks and TechTalks; and provides programs, such as coding classes and UI/UX classes in partnership with relevant institutions to cater to the demand for practical skills. The company also owns and operates co-living spaces. It has co-working spaces in various cities in Indonesia, such as South Jakarta, Central Jakarta, Tangerang, West Jakarta, Bali, North Jakarta, Medan, and Yogyakarta. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Jakarta Selatan, Indonesia.

TalkIQ

Series A in 2017
Since 2014, TalkIQ has offered voice‐to‐text transcription and analytics for clients across a wide variety of industries. Using cutting edge deep‐learning algorithms, proprietary speech recognition and predictive analytics technology, we give our clients visibility into all of their phone conversations, extracting insights for uses ranging from sales optimization, to customer service, compliance, and more. Our recommendations enable teams to save time and maximize productivity, though quick access to action-oriented data & analysis. TalkIQ is backed by prominent Silicon Valley VC firms and is helmed by an advisory board with decades of experience in the speech and language recognition fields.

Wit studio

Acquisition in 2015
wit studio (위트스튜디오) is a Korean provider of user interface and graphical user interface tools. Its product portfolio includes Assistor, a mini-tool for Photoshop that facilitates GUI design guide operations; Codinator, a tool for creating GUI designs more efficiently; and Grappic, a tool that enables users to search iOS app designs from the app store and collect them for their own reference. wit studio’s tools include features such as layer snips, rounders, tilers, unit converters, and position, size and space guiders. wit studio was established in June 2011 in Seoul, Korea.

SNOW

Venture Round in 2016
Snow is the developer and operator of the selfie pic and video app SNOW, featuring face recognition-enabled stickers and GIF-enabled chat functionality. With SNOW, users pick from over 700 stickers and 30 types of filters to liven up their photos and videos, then send the finished product to their friends or post them within the SNOW app to give their friends a peek into what they are up to now. User numbers have been growing steadily since the app first launched in Korea, with service being expanded to Japan and China in November 2015 and February 2016, respectively. In Japan, the number of users has been growing rapidly, and the app has been ranked as No.1 in both iOS App Store’s free app Photo & Video category and Google Play’s Photography category.

Freee

Series E in 2018
freee is automated online accounting software that syncs with your bank accounts and automatically categorise entries to create financial reports. freee was launched on Mar 19, 2013 and is offered to SMBs operating under the Japanese taxation system. It takes freemium model and its paid plan begins at 980 JPY (~10 USD) per month per business. The company, formerly named as “CFO K.K.”, was founded in July 2012 led by Daisuke Sasaki, who previously headed up Google’s SMB marketing in Asia Pasific region. freee is the winner of Invinity Ventures Summit Launch Pad 2013 Spring, the most prestegious demo event in Japan.

CHOCOLABS

Acquisition in 2018
CHOCOLABS was established in September 2011 in Taiwan. Its current portfolio adds up to total of 62 APPs, more than 12M downloads and 1.8M monthly active users. CHOCOLABS aims to create the perfect living circle by offering users the APPs to ease their daily lives. In present mobile era, CHOCOLABS continues to be dedicated to making users lives more convenient through “App Your Life” experience.

FOLIO

Private Placement in 2018
FOLIO Co.,Ltd. develops web based asset management platform. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Sellsuki

Acquisition in 2018
SellSuki operates as an e-commerce platform to help shops sells their products on Facebook. The company focuses on messaging and chatting, like a CRM platform for Facebook commerce. The company is based in Thailand. As of December 20, 2018, SellSuki operates as a subsidiary of LINE Corporation.

Translimit

Seed Round in 2014
Translimit was initially launched back in January by Hiroki Takaba and Takuma Kudo, both of whom previously worked at CyberAgent companies. They have been involved in several game projects together, including the virtual avatar service Ameba Pico (which shut down back in 2012) and mobile social game Girl Friend BETA. The Translimit team is participating in Movida Japan incubation program here in Tokyo.

AdAsia Holdings

Private Placement in 2018
AdAsia is part of AnyMind Group, a provider of marketing technology and entertainment technology. Together with AdAsia (advertising), CastingAsia (influencer marketing) and TalentMind, AnyMind Group looks to empower professionals, businesses and industries for further growth through technology.

Crowd Credit

Private Placement in 2018
Crowdcredit is cross-border marketplace lending platform operator. We provide risk capital to individuals and SMEs in financial deficit countries while we offer attractive lending opportunities to investors in financial surplus countries. Currently, we are providing Japanese personal and SMEs investors with opportunities to lend to individuals and SMEs in Peru, Cameroon, Estonia, Finland, Spain and in Italy. In 2016, Crowdcredit is aiming to start raising funds and also to start lending in Asian region outside of Japan.

The Parentinc

Corporate Round in 2022
Tickled Media is a tech company and digital publishing house that focuses on content and community platforms women through websites, app, and social media platforms, as it makes non-judgmental communities of support for the audience. Its flagship brand, theAsianparent.com, is a digital parenting destination and reaches over 11 million mums in the region. The company is backed by venture capital from Vertex Venture Holdings, LionRock Capital, and other prominent venture capitalists. Tickled Media was founded on 2009 and is headquartered in Singapore.

Fastwork

Private Placement in 2018
Fastwork Technologies Co., Ltd. develops a freelancing application in Thailand that helps in hiring professional freelancers. It offers freelancers for graphic and illustration, writing and translation, website and app development, video and sound, and online marketing and advertisements. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Bangkok, Thailand.

ZUZU Hospitality

Private Placement in 2019
ZUZU Hospitality is chain for independent hotels, delivering revenue growth through distribution and revenue management. As such, we are the indisputable primary partner to hoteliers in driving revenue. Acting as their hotel operating system, we power their back office revenue generation business operations, allowing them to focus on being great hoteliers.

HappyFresh

Series C in 2019
HappyFresh is an online grocery platform in South-East Asia that allows people to shop products from great grocery stores around the city at the tap of a button. It operates its own delivery fleet and staff that pick the fresh groceries from partnering supermarkets. The company was founded in 2014 and has operations in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand.

justInCase

Seed Round in 2018
justInCase, Inc. provides smartphone repair cost, accident, and credit card insurance services. The company also offers a mobile application which enables users to buy insurance coverage from insurance providers, for repair cost insurance; upload photos and details of a smart-phone or wearable device; and use artificial intelligence (AI) to determine the premium. Additionally, it allows users to pool to pay insurance premiums. justInCase, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

PT. Warung Pintar Sekali

Private Placement in 2019
PT. Warung Pintar Sekali develops prefabricated smart kiosks for street vendors. It offers smart kiosk that are fitted with digital point of sale equipment, surveillance camera, digital system, charging station, television, stove and dispenser, and refrigerator. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Amartha

Series B in 2019
Amartha is a financial technology company that connects micro and SME business partners with investors.

Fairy Devices

Venture Round in 2018
Fairy Devices Inc focuses on research and development in the field of machine learning related to audio and voice recognition, as well as in the design and assessment of dialogue systems and user experience design. The company engages in the development and provision of mimi, a cloud-based API service for voice dialogue systems; and development and sales of Fairy I/O, a series of voice input/output hardware. Fairy Devices Inc was founded in 2007 and is based in Bunkyo-Ku, Japan.

Fauna

Private Placement in 2017
Fauna is a data api for modern applications that facilitates rich clients with serverless backends by providing a web-native interface with support for GraphQL and custom business logic, frictionless integration with the serverless ecosystem, a no compromise multi-cloud architecture you can trust and grow with and total freedom from database operations. Innovators like Nextdoor and NVIDIA trust Fauna to power their applications. Backed by premier venture investors Madrona Venture Group, Addition Capital, and GV, Fauna is a 100% remote organization with an experienced leadership team hailing from Microsoft, Okta, Twitter, Elastic, and Oracle. For more information visit fauna.com or follow us at @fauna.

justInCaseTechnologies

Private Placement in 2019
justInCaseTechnologies, Inc. provides technology based insurance services. Its products include smart phone insurance, one day personal belonging insurance, and travel insurance. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

DGM59

Acquisition in 2017
DGM59, Like all businesses, service is key. DGM59 work co-operatively with our clients from scratch to their goal. Our clients come to us with an idea, and ellaborate them together, and make them come to life. With all our beliefs in a perfect product, we put all those into our services through the incorporation of great user experience (U/X Design), and simplistic user friendly design.

AnyMind Group

Series B in 2018
AnyMind Group is an organization that is transforming industries through artificial intelligence. Headquartered in Singapore, AnyMind Group is the parent company of AdAsia Holdings, TalentMind and CastingAsia. In the marketing industry, end-to-end solutions by companies under the AnyMind Group span influencer marketing, programmatic and digital advertising, and publisher monetization. For the human resource industry, AnyMind group’s TalentMind provides human resource and recruitment professionals with an AI-driven recruitment optimization platform to make hiring more efficient and smart. AnyMind Group aims to power businesses and professionals with a suite of AI-based solutions, enabling them to easily achieve greater scale and efficiency within and across departments.

Warung Pintar

Series A in 2019
Warung Pintar is a micro retail technology company with a mission to enable digitalization for the grassroots population to improve the community around them. With data processing and analysis, Warung Pintar enables data point for the underserved bottom of the pyramid which forms the bulk of the population in Indonesia, opening new windows of opportunity for financial inclusion, social security, behavior analysis, community engagement and impact monitoring.

Bear Robotics

Angel Round in 2017
Bear Robotics addresses the increased pressure faced by the restaurant industry around wages, labor supply, and cost efficiencies. It aims to revolutionize the restaurant and food service industry using robotics and AI. The company makes robots that help customers receive an improved dining experience, employees with greater job satisfaction, and owners of restaurants with an increase in profits. Bear Robotics started in 2017 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Limakilo

Series B in 2019
Company formed from one of the teams that are members of the community Code4Nation who want to help farmers in Indonesia to sell its commodities better. Our greatest hope is that people can buy food commodities directly from farmers

Demae-Can Co.,Ltd (JASDAQ:2484)

Merger/Acquisition in 2016
Demae-Can Co., Ltd operates delivery site Demae-can in Japan. The company provides food delivery service that enables its users to order from a range of restaurants. It also sells bottles of shochu, wine, and other beverages then to restaurants. The company was formerly known as Yume no Machi Souzou Iinkai Co., Ltd. Demae-Can Co., Ltd was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Osaka, Japan.

Catalog

Private Placement in 2018
CATALOG is a developer of a data conversion and storage platform used to offer the next generation of digital data archives and computation. Its platform facilitates the encoding of data and information into DNA format and makes it economically attractive to use DNA as the major medium for long-term archival of data that enables customers to store digital information in DNA molecules. It brings cutting-edge synthetic biology technologies to the world of information storage and computation. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Line Pay

Corporate Round in 2019
LINE Pay Corporation designs and develops a mobile money transfer and purchasing. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Japan. The company operates as a subsidiary of LINE Corporation.

GrayHash

Acquisition in 2018
GrayHash is described as an online security research centre specialising in “offensive research” and counter-hacking techniques.

TriFort,Inc.

Venture Round in 2016
TriFort, Inc. engages in the publication of smartphone applications to users from various application markets operated by platform companies. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. As of October 11, 2018, TriFort, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of UNITED, Inc.

justInCase

Private Placement in 2019
justInCase, Inc. provides smartphone repair cost, accident, and credit card insurance services. The company also offers a mobile application which enables users to buy insurance coverage from insurance providers, for repair cost insurance; upload photos and details of a smart-phone or wearable device; and use artificial intelligence (AI) to determine the premium. Additionally, it allows users to pool to pay insurance premiums. justInCase, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Line Taxi

Series A in 2019
Provider of online taxi-hailing service based in Taipei City, Taiwan. The company uses the chatbot technology to provide taxi services and the trip is recorded through GPS which can be shared with relatives and friends in real-time to report safety.

WELMO

Private Placement in 2019
Welmo Inc. provides artificial intelligence service for the care and welfare industry that helps users make decisions. The company develops social resource management for medical, disability, and long term care. It also develops a platform of social resource information with nursing care. In addition, it provides after school services to disabled students. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Tokyo, Japan with an additional office in Fukuoka.

Evolany

Venture Round in 2018
Evolany Co., Ltd. develops software application for business automation. It develops Chatbot for customer relationship management. Evolany Co., Ltd. caters to automobile, education, fashion mail order, government, food and beverage, shopping mall, medical institutions, and hospitality sectors. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Yokohama, Japan.

FIVE Inc.

Merger/Acquisition in 2017
FIVE Inc. develops and operates a video distribution platform for smartphones. The company offers Moments by FIVE, a branding marketplace application; and Video Network by FIVE, a mobile specialized video network to provide creative services. It serves advertisers/agencies, and media and site owners. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Shibuya-ku, Japan.

Pulit

Series A in 2018
Pulit is the Japanese startup that develops distribution technologies for digital image. It directly connects Contents and User using its digital watermarking technology (RIC).

Mobilus

Corporate Round in 2018
Mobilus Corporationis a Communication Tech Company that transforms communication with AI. We provide communication platforms that have been adopted by major carriers and SIer companies, and develop communication solutions that utilize mobile and artificial intelligence.

Sunday

Private Placement in 2020
Sunday Ins Co., Ltd. provides insurance products and services through internet . The company offers health insurance to businesses and individuals, motor insurance, travel insurance, and electronics protection. Sunday Ins Co., Ltd. develops an app that helps businesses and individuals to check claim data, health data, plan welfare and budget for employees, manage employee information and their benefit packages, and submit claim. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Bangkok, Thailand.

OkieLa

Series A in 2018
OkieLa is a developer of an online mobile application intended to to connect and learn to help users grow their businesses. The company's application provides shopping and selling on mobile and creates connection between the buyer and seller, enabling users to optimize what to do so they can focus more on their business.

4:33 Creative Lab

Private Equity Round in 2014
4:33 Creative Lab, a top Korean mobile game designer,

vinclu Inc.

Acquisition in 2017
Vinclu designs, develops, and manufactures smartphone accessories. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan.

FIVE Inc.

Acquisition in 2017
FIVE Inc. develops and operates a video distribution platform for smartphones. The company offers Moments by FIVE, a branding marketplace application; and Video Network by FIVE, a mobile specialized video network to provide creative services. It serves advertisers/agencies, and media and site owners. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Shibuya-ku, Japan.

Pulit

Private Placement in 2018
Pulit is the Japanese startup that develops distribution technologies for digital image. It directly connects Contents and User using its digital watermarking technology (RIC).

Crowd Credit

Series D in 2018
Crowdcredit is cross-border marketplace lending platform operator. We provide risk capital to individuals and SMEs in financial deficit countries while we offer attractive lending opportunities to investors in financial surplus countries. Currently, we are providing Japanese personal and SMEs investors with opportunities to lend to individuals and SMEs in Peru, Cameroon, Estonia, Finland, Spain and in Italy. In 2016, Crowdcredit is aiming to start raising funds and also to start lending in Asian region outside of Japan.

Photosynth

Private Equity Round in 2020
Photosynth Inc. develops smart locks for homes. The company was founded on September 1, 2014 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.